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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Dizzy Heights-3, Addendas

Height of Association- Ojas says “Thaa” for Kutta (dog). I tied up my hair high on my head with a clip and he pointed at it and said thaa thaa

Height of Starting Early- They don’t know how to walk properly but love to sit on their tricycle (gift from grandma)

Height of (Dis)advantage- Ojas crawling away in top speed with a toy and Tejas following him-haltingly walking

Height of Dodge- Tejas playing with the cordless phone and when he saw Ojas coming to snatch it, he pushes the mobile cover towards Ojas for him to play with it.

Height of Dodge 2- Both playing with cordless phone. Tejas happens to get the one that does not work; he throws it away and snatches the one that Ojas is having. Ojas refuses to give so Tejas surreptitiously pushes the phone that is not working towards Ojas and confuses him and snatched the good piece

Height of Socializing- Both sitting and drinking from their bottles and towards the end both drink bottoms up.=====================================================================================Addenda to Only in Bihar 1. Chain pronounced like Man means Zip (pronounced as Jip)2. When they say switch on the Mercury (pronounced- Mer-Ka-ree) they mean switch on the tubelight- wonder how I could forget that – I almost laughed out loud when I thought of it.3. Glass (tumbler) is pronounced as Gilass4. Labour means Labourer5. Tempo means Autorickshaw6. Ration- pronounced as Raashan means monthly grocery- what's the alternate hindi word for monthly grocery- any one?7. Kerosene is also called Matti tel literally meaning mud-oil or of course Kiraasan8. Cycle is pronounced as Cykil9. Yellow is pronounced Yall-low10. Funy is pronounced as Fun-nee

Only in Chennai1. When someone says nice Salwar or nice Churidaar- they mean the Kurta or salwar suit- For very long I use to wonder why people never complimented my kurta but only the salwar2. If a man and woman are sitting in a bus together it follows that they are husband and wife3. When they say- you don’t have brine they mean you don’t have brain4. Everything here is a cover- Envelope, Plastic Bag and the covers..5. Most flowers are some "malli"6. You don't put lipstick or nailpolish but wear them7. I used to laugh when I heard soft drink is called cool drink - in North they are called cold drink

Only in Bengal1. They don't travel in train without a mug2. Rubber band is Gudder or gaarder(derived Garter? or Girder?)- anyone please enlighten us3. In winter,they tie a scarf on their head even while going to the bathroom4. You is pronounced as iu and We is pronounced as ui5. And the best part- they serve a good variety of non veg dishes in weddings but if they happen to have a sit and get served system, they will start with lemon, salt, papad and proceed to vegetarian food, rice etc and towards the end only they will serve poori and non-veg in huge quantities- so adjust your eating speed and quantity accordingly6. Ambassador is pronounced as Am-ba-sadoor (am & ba is slowly and sadoor is very fast)7. Embroidery is pronounced as ambraidory

35 comments:

1.the bacchaas will say "bat-ball khelna hai" instead of lets play cricket.2.the ice-water game (vish-amrit) we bacchass played was like bees-amreet in bihar..3. we go to "halls" to see movies in bihar.4.sharpener is called "cutter" and the eraser is rubber or rubbbad..hehehOnly in chennai...

1.all gundaas are referred to as "rowdies"..2. amitabh bacchan is amithab bacchan..3. Z is eeezade.4 thankyou is thangew5. tiffin is the lunch..i wonder i used that word way back in my nursery days..6. Meals means unlimited rice,saambhar,rasam etc

I love reading about what these two bundles of joy are upto. How do you find the time to do anything else and how can you have the heart to take your eyes off all the cute things they seem to be upto all the time?

heheheh... cud totally relate to the bihar and chennai stuff.. :).. maybe i shud do one for rajasthan.. u will be in splits when u talk to any local guy in a dhaba wrapped in blankets, with a huge colorful turban, squatting on a chair with a hookah.. :)

O yes, I cannot agree more to this...since I myself am from UP, neighbour of Bihar, we too ted to say these things at times, not all, but things like 'cutter', 'mitti ka tel'......And coming to Chennai..I guess it is aaplicable not only for Chennai but for the whole of South...here in Bangalore too people call salwaar to Kurta Churidar...Also, books is used generously for note books, text books, regiters....hehehe

There is some contention about the correct way to express the "application of lipstick" (on lips I suppose) in English! Though I cannot really say if any usage is right or wrong, I can find the popular one. A search in google.com for the key "wear lipstick" (with the quotes) gives me the number of documents that match that word combination. And the results are

"put lipstick" 89000"wear lipstick" 85900"put on lipstick" 26500

Though this does not mean that the usage of "put on" is wrong, it only means that, this usage (which also means "to wear") is much less popular that the other two. With respect to the first two usages, since both are almost equally popular, it could only mean two things: either both are correct, or Tamil people have taken over the internet and polluting it with their weird English.

:).....being in advertising one is supposed to be well versed with these regional nuances but what passes off as huge insight in consumer psyche, in most of the corporate presentations is also hilarious.